Mystery Novel Reader Mugs

A spy

"Of course I got rid of him...in my own way."

Michael Hall 1930-2002: wonderful father, devoted husband, benevolent employer, generous citizen, BUT...

"Just out of curiosity, are you with organized crime or are you an independent?"

Edgar Allen Poe

The Dorrie Decimal System

'Mysteries' section of bookshop reveals secret door.

"Your hunch was right, Officer Garcia. We'll need a good editor to clean up this manuscript and bring his unfinished novel to a satisfying conclusion."

"Elementary, my dear Watson- the cartoonist did it."

'You know bank pens never work. Why didn't you write the holdup note before we left?!'

Murder in Apartment 6-K

It was my story. A murder mystery. A who-done-it-and-got-away-with-it-until-he-wrote-about-it.

"Either we spend millions on new technology to erase each agent's memory following a sensitive assignment, or we just start hiring people over fifty."

Ant story: 'and so they worked all day and they worked all night and then they worked some more, the end.'

'Ah Mr Bond, I haven't been expecting you...'

"I'm just saying, maybe we wouldn't need the swords if we didn't wear these clothes."

"'A body at rest'? -- Are you writing murder mysteries now, Isaac?"

'Who was the murderer? Well Watson, that's the killer question.'

"We need rain."

"OK, we may not have ways of making you talk, but we do have ways of making your leg twitch uncontrollably."

Man browsing books see couple kissing in romance section of book store.

'It was part way through the initial investigation that detective Walters felt as if he was being watched, but there was no one in the room. No one that is except the cat, who sat contently on the chair and watched him with an almost human repose.'

'Believe me, you don't want to know what's in it.'

"I know. But I think I can change him."

"It was Saturday night. The clock on my office wall showed the time to be eleven-forty-five. There are times when a private eye does not necessarily feel like being a private eye. This was one of those times. The elevator door down the hall clanked open with a clank familiar to anyone on the fourth floor who had had an office on the fourth floor for as long as I had had an office on the fourth floor. Footsteps came down the darkened hall and stopped outside my door. They were the footsteps of a

'..It's just that with all your amazing powers of deduction and elimination, Holmes, I'm just a little surprised that the best solution you can come up with for seeing off the hound of the Baskervilles, is to 'chase them across the moors with a hoover. up

Mystery of the Poets

Mad Hatter's tea party.

Illustration for 'The Notting Hill Mystery'. (woman pulled out of the river).

'The police is looking for a teenager who reads books... I bet they'll never solve this case!'

"It's a 12 inch chess board - the game's a foot."

Fiction. Mystery. History.

Cosa Nostradamus: "Listen, you mook. I predict if you don't pay the vig to the Don by tonight you'll be at the bottom of the Hudson by morning."

Mysteries.

Company Ink.